the 12th annual festival of mushrooms, chestnuts and truffles at Castiglione di Garfagnana.

The Italian swing band, The Aristodemos left their home town of Barga and instead moved further up the valley and made themselves heard inside the walls of another medieval walled town – this time Castiglione di Garfagnana. They were there for the Autumn festival now in its twelfth year with the emphasis strongly on the palate […]

The Garfagnomi were out and about this weekend helping to organise a motorbike event at Castiglione Garfagnana. Serchio Motori and Biketrainer Garage were also in attendance with a range of bikes – Aprilia, Guzzi and Piaggio . Vintage and veteran forms of transport were also on view, including a battery powered vehicle that was first […]

Castiglione di Garfagnana is a medieval walled town and comune of 1,878 inhabitants in the province of Lucca. It sits on a hillside above the river Esarulo, a tributary of the Serchio. The town is renowned for the band Filarmonica Alpina, founded in 1858 with the name of Fanfara popolare. The origin of the town […]